Ahmet Erdi Öztürk

Associate Professor Ahmet Erdi Öztürk is a faculty member in London Metropolitan University’s School of Social Sciences and Professions in the United Kingdom. He is also an associate researcher (Chercheur Associé) at Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes and Non-Residence Senior Scholar at ELIAMEP’s Turkey Programme. He is the co-editor of Edinburg University Press’ Series on Modern Turkey, associate editor of both Middle East Critique and South East European and Black Sea Studies as well as occupying the editorship role of International Journal of Religion.
Dr. Öztürk was also working as Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Coventry University in the United Kindon and GIGA in Germany. He was a Swedish Institute Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), at Linköping University, Scholar in Residence at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the United States of America. After completing both quantitative and qualitative master's programs in Turkey and Spain, in 2018, Dr. Öztürk successfully completed his doctorate at Strasbourg University with the highest distinction in the history of the university’s Department of Political Science.
Dr. Öztürk has published 41 academic articles in several peer reviewed Q1 academic journals, which have the highest impact factor in the fields of political science and international relations. He is the author of 19 book chapters. He has been the leading editor on 9 special journal issues regarding the role of religion in global politics, and Türkiye's foreign policy and have published a further 9 academic books in which he acted as the main editor, co-author, and sole author. Additionally, he has provided over 100 international newspaper articles and given more than 75 interviews to global newspapers and television news channels including BBC, CNN International and France 24. He has been invited more than 80 universities, research centres and governmental institutions such as the UK Foreign Office, the German Foreign Ministry, the Swedish Foreign Ministry and ambassies all around the world to deliver his research findings.

Dr. Öztürk is a multi-award-winning scholar. He received his first major award in 2020 from London Met - the 'Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award.' Subsequently, he received the ‘Exceptional Scholar Award’ from Coventry University in 2021 when he was a Marie Curie fellow. The global awards he received were from the International Studies Association (ISA), considered as one of the most prestigious social science associations with more than 10.000 members. Starting from 2021 and continuing until 2023, he was honoured with the ENMISA, REL sections’, and finally, the overall prestigious ‘Distinguished Rising Scholar Award’ of the entire association.